On Tue, 2020-09-01 at 14:32 +0200, Christian Ehrhardt wrote: > On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 10:30 AM Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> wrote: > > On Tue, 2020-08-18 at 19:12 +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 19.11.4. > > > > > > The planned date for the final release is August 31st. > > > > > > Please help with testing and validation of your use cases and report > > > any issues/results with reply-all to this mail. For the final release > > > the fixes and reported validations will be added to the release notes. > > > > > > A release candidate tarball can be found at: > > > > > > https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/tag/?id=v19.11.4-rc1 > > > > > > These patches are located at branch 19.11 of dpdk-stable repo: > > > https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/ > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > Luca Boccassi > > > > Microsoft's regression tests are still running, delaying until Thursday > > the 3rd. Apologies for any inconvenience. > > Due to report on OVS failing to build I happened to find that 19.11.4 > has massively changed linking. > => https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/znCRR4gpjP/ > > This was meant to be helpful for sure and I assume is around: > 48f7fd27f6 build/pkg-config: prevent overlinking > 2d1535d592 build/pkg-config: improve static linking flags > 9fb13a12c1 build/pkg-config: output drivers first for static build > 59b108d824 build/pkg-config: move pkg-config file creation > aea915e944 devtools: test static linkage with pkg-config > > But overlinking has effectively become underlinking now > https://launchpadlibrarian.net/495845224/buildlog_ubuntu-groovy-amd64.openvswitch_2.13.1-0ubuntu2~ppa1_BUILDING.txt.gz > > /usr/bin/ld: > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/10/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/librte_pmd_ring.a(net_ring_rte_eth_ring.c.o): > in function `rte_eth_from_rings': > (.text+0x91c): undefined reference to `rte_vdev_init' > /usr/bin/ld: > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/10/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/librte_pmd_ring.a(net_ring_rte_eth_ring.c.o): > in function `vdrvinitfn_pmd_ring_drv': > (.text.startup+0x28): undefined reference to `rte_vdev_register' > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status > > Also as you can see in the pastebin above, CFlags and Libs massively > shrunk and likely too much so. > > Given that this should be a stable release I'd ask to back out those > changes so that a test build creates the same .pc file as before - > would that make sense?
Paging Bruce and Ian - IIRC OVS explicitly asked for that series to be backported and took a dependency on it, so removing it might cause breakages for them? Ian? Bruce, have you see the error reported by Christian before? -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
